Force Inside Identity: Self and Other in Améry’s “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew”

In a statement too strong even to summarize his own views, Jean-Paul Sartre famously declares in “Existentialism is a Humanism” that “man is nothing other than what he makes of himself.” It is bad faith, according to him, to attribute what I am to my family, culture, condition, etc., because through...

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Main Author: Deborah Achtenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
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Online Access:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/794